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What the Supreme Court’s Loper Decision Means for the Affordable Housing Industry

Ending 40 years of judicial deference to administrative agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes governing them, the Supreme Court of the United States finally pulled the plug on this experiment that it, just five...more

Government Investigations Team Insights - July 2024

AGG’s Government Investigations Team Insights provides periodic updates covering legal and regulatory topics. Our team, which includes former federal prosecutors, SEC enforcement attorneys, and federal agency attorneys, has...more

AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 5: Understanding Palliative Care: Strategies for Compliance and Reimbursement [Audio]

In this episode, AGG Post-Acute & Long-Term Care co-chair Jason Bring is joined by AGG Healthcare attorney Charmaine Mech to discuss the latest developments in the palliative care industry across the country. Jason and...more

AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 5: What the End of Agency Deference Means for the Healthcare Industry [Audio]

In this episode, AGG Healthcare Litigation co-chair Jason Bring continues his discussion on agency deference with AGG Healthcare Litigation partner Brian Stimson in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's opinion in Loper Bright...more

Healthcare Providers Could Finally Have Their Day in Court: Supreme Court Holds That Defendants Are Entitled to Jury Trials When...

On June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States released its opinion in SEC v. Jarkesy, a case involving a Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) enforcement action for civil penalties against an investment...more

Dead at 40: Supreme Court Finally Ends Legal Deference to Regulators

Ending 40 years of judicial deference to administrative agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes governing them, the Supreme Court of the United States finally pulled the plug on this experiment that, just five years...more

AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 4: What to Do When Insurance Companies Deny Behavioral Health Claims [Audio]

In this episode, AGG Healthcare Litigation co-chair Jason Bring is joined by AGG Healthcare Litigation partners Rich Collins and Damon Eisenbrey to discuss what you can do when insurance companies deny behavioral health...more

AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Lessons Learned From ALJ Hospice Audit Appeals [Audio]

In this episode, AGG Post-Acute & Long-Term Care co-chair Jason Bring is joined by Megan Turby and Lisa Barker, MD, of Gulfside Healthcare Services in Land O' Lakes, Florida. AGG represented Gulfside in a series of hospice...more

AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 3: The Future of Agency Deference in Healthcare Regulation [Audio]

In this episode, AGG Healthcare Litigation co-chair Jason Bring discusses the evolving landscape of agency deference with AGG Healthcare Litigation partner Brian Stimson. Brian explains the types of agency deference —...more

AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 2: Substance Use Disorder Litigation [Audio]

In this episode AGG Healthcare Litigation co-chair Jason Bring is joined by AGG Healthcare Litigation partners Rich Collins and Damon Eisenbrey to discuss substance use disorder (“SUD”) litigation. The attorneys dive into...more

AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights - Episode 1: A Primer for Providers When Insurance Companies Refuse to Pay [Audio]

In this episode AGG Healthcare Litigation co-chair Jason Bring is joined by AGG Healthcare Litigation partners Rich Collins and Damon Eisenbrey to discuss commercial payor litigation. Jason, Rich, and Damon offer a primer for...more

Georgia Hospital Association Urges Supreme Court of Georgia to Review Scope of Immunity Protections Related to the COVID-19...

On behalf of the Georgia Hospital Association (“GHA”), AGG Healthcare partner and Post-Acute & Long-Term Care industry team co-chair, Jason Bring, submitted an amicus (friend of the court) brief to the Supreme Court of...more

AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Reimbursement Audits and Appeals [Audio]

In this episode, Jason Bring, AGG Healthcare partner and co-chair of the Post-Acute & Long-Term Care team, and Lanchi Nguyen Bombalier, AGG Healthcare partner and member of the Post-Acute & Long-Term Care, Hospitals & Health...more

Home Health & Hospice Quarterly - Q2

AGG’s Home Health & Hospice team publishes a quarterly newsletter covering legal and regulatory topics specific to the home and community-based healthcare industry. The fields of end-of-life and home healthcare present...more

OIG Developing Updated Compliance Guidance for Hospices and Other Providers

Over the last three decades, the OIG has developed a series of voluntary compliance program guidance documents (“CPGs”) directed at various segments of the healthcare industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices....more

Home Health & Hospice Quarterly - Q1

AGG’s Home Health & Hospice team publishes a quarterly newsletter covering legal and regulatory topics specific to the home and community-based healthcare industry. The fields of end-of-life and home healthcare present...more

AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Home Health and Hospice Deal Environment [Audio]

In this episode, Jason Bring, AGG Healthcare partner and co-chair of the Post-Acute & Long-Term Care industry team; Matt Brohm, AGG Healthcare partner and co-chair of the Healthcare Private Equity team; and Alex Foster, AGG...more

2/20/2023  /  Home Health Care , Hospice

GAO Report Recommends That CMS Expand Hospice Abuse Reporting Requirements

The US Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) issued a report on December 12, 2022, recommending that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) expand hospice fraud and abuse reporting requirements to make them...more

Community-Based Palliative Care Models and Trends

For too long, many have talked about the need for community-based palliative care programs as both a precursor to hospice care and even as a stand-alone service. Sure, some have given it a go, but for many others, without...more

Home Health and Hospice Deal Environment

After attending the recent annual conference of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (“NAHC”) in St. Louis, Missouri, and speaking with numerous clients, consultants, and vendors, AGG Healthcare partner, co-chair...more

Hospices Audited for Provider Relief Fund Payments

After more than two years since the initial Provider Relief Fund (“Fund”) disbursement, hospices are beginning to see audits of their Fund expenditures by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) Office of the...more

No Sun Outlasts Its Sunset: COVID Liability After The Sunset of Georgia’s Immunity Protections

Georgia’s COVID-19 immunity protections for nursing facilities, providers, and businesses will sunset on July 14, 2022, so does this mean dark litigation days lie ahead? At the height of the COVID outbreak in the spring...more

Georgia Supreme Court Sides With Nursing Home on Arbitration Issue Briefed by AGG Attorneys

Since 1925, Congress and the United States Supreme Court have recognized arbitration as a favored means of dispute resolution, offering a faster, more private, and less expensive alternative to the court systems....more

Sequestration and the Hospice Cap 2.0: Pending Legislation May Extend the Sequestration Moratorium

In the wake of the government-wide sequestration cuts in 2011, the hospice industry was not spared. Medicare hospice payments were reduced by two percent in accordance with a sequestration order issued March 1, 2013, pursuant...more

Hospice Payments Possibly Impacted by OIG Wage Index Recommendation

An August 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General recommended that the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revamp its use of the hospital wage index to...more

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